Work

• Amazon (2022 - )
  • Principal Product Manager Technical (PMT) - Amazon RDS
• Crunchy Data (2018 - 2022)
  • VP, Platform Engineering
  • Director, Cloud Engineering & Growth
  • Director, Communications & Customer Success
• VenueBook (2011-2017)
  • CTO
• Paperless Post (2008-2011)
  • VP, Technology (mostly due to timing of join, I was more like a “Senior Engineer-ish”)

PostgreSQL Community

• PostgreSQL Core Team (2020 - )
  • Other teams include: Release, Security, Web, Sponsorship, Funds. Previously served on Code of Conduct Committee.
• PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada (PGCAC) (2018 - )
  • Director
  • Corporate Secretary
• United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS) (2013 - )
• Director

Programming Languages

• Very Comfortable
  • SQL, Python, Go
• Decent
  • JavaScript, HTML/CSS
• I’ve used a bunch of others. I can fumble around and figure it out.

Tech This and That

• PostgreSQL
• Kubernetes
• Django
• React

Open Source Contributions

When I first started using, let alone contributing, to open source, I never thought I could have a career around it, so I don’t have all of my contributions logged. Here are a few highlights:

• PostgreSQL
  • Mainly governance, but I have some big contributions to the website and a couple in the core database software.
• Crunchy Postgres Operator
  • Mostly on v4; Was mainly focused on product aspects of v5.
• pg_tle (aka “Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL”)
  • Involved in all aspects of project: product, development, documentation
• asyncpg
  • SCRAM Support!
• Patroni
  • TLS Authentication for System Accounts

Education

• Tufts University (2004 - 2008)
  • Computer Science, B.S.
  • Mathematics, B.A.

Languages

• English
• French (somewhat well)
• Italian (decently, but not as well as French)